Written Question
Monday 6th June 2016
Asked by:
Tania Mathias (Conservative - Twickenham)
Question
to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to reduce the cost to the NHS of postage of appointment notifications to patients.
Answered by George Freeman
The National Information Board’s strategy document Personalised Health and Care 2020 (published November 2014) set out the aim to support greater uptake of the use of digital systems in health and care to create a National Health Service paper free at the point of care by 2020. This will remove the system’s reliance on paper and will help reduce postal service costs for the NHS.
In the case of appointment letters for patients the new NHS e-referral system, introduced last year, already allows healthcare providers to choose not to send out appointment letters, instead allowing patients to access the information directly from the NHS e-referral system. Patients have an option to print off the details of their appointment if they prefer to have a paper copy of the information. We expect increasing numbers of providers will use this functionality to help contain costs.
Written Question
Wednesday 11th May 2016
Asked by:
Tania Mathias (Conservative - Twickenham)
Question
to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to support the children and families of alcoholics.
Answered by Jane Ellison
Public Health England (PHE) is engaged in a work programme which aims to reduce alcohol-related harm to individuals, families and society. PHE works closely with local authorities to support their work of assessing local alcohol-related need and commissioning services and support to meet that need, including identification and brief advice, alcohol treatment and helping ensure that young people’s substance misuse services target vulnerable young people.
PHE is producing a report on the harm alcohol causes to people other than the drinker, in collaboration with governments in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. This report will look at the impact of alcohol on others, including the children of parents with alcohol problems. It is due to published this year.
PHE will also provide estimates of the number of children likely to be affected by their parents’ alcohol use and provide advice to national and local government on where action could have the greatest impact on improving life chances.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 10 May 2016
Oral Answers to Questions
"3. What steps he is taking to encourage the use of biosimilar medicines in NHS treatment...."Tania Mathias - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 10 May 2016
Oral Answers to Questions
"I thank my hon. Friend for that answer. May I ask also that where NHS pharmacists are involved in oncology clinics, there is a higher prescribing of biosimilars? What steps are in place to encourage more oncology clinics to involve NHS pharmacists at the start of the patient’s treatment journey?..."Tania Mathias - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 28 Apr 2016
Digital Records in the NHS
"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Wilson.
I applaud my hon. Friend the Member for The Cotswolds (Geoffrey Clifton-Brown) for securing this debate on an incredibly important topic. He has covered all the points that should be covered, and I just want to make a few …..."Tania Mathias - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 28 Apr 2016
Digital Records in the NHS
"On the point about the problems with big data, I concur with my hon. Friend the Member for The Cotswolds (Geoffrey Clifton-Brown). Our problem is that if we are not first in this, we will be the losers...."Tania Mathias - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 28 Apr 2016
Digital Records in the NHS
"We have been talking about the speed with which the Government should be digitalising records, hence the idea of a chief of information for the NHS. I believe that the public are already ahead of the Government. That is the problem—I fear that the Government may already be too late. …..."Tania Mathias - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 28 Apr 2016
Digital Records in the NHS
"Will the Minister ensure that there is a two-way exchange of information and transparency so that, if the NHS has my medical data, I am always offered, in a secure form such as a personal Dropbox, or whatever form I wish, everything that the NHS has on me? Every patient …..."Tania Mathias - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 28 Apr 2016
Digital Records in the NHS
"In defence of the clinicians out there, I am sure the majority believe that the patients they serve are sovereign...."Tania Mathias - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 11 Apr 2016
Upper Gastrointestinal Haemorrhage
"I appreciate the Government’s intention, but I do not know whether my local hospital is accredited. I am highly concerned about the current postcode lottery. What is the Minister’s plan right now, tonight, for people who are going to a hospital that does not have an adequate rota system and …..."Tania Mathias - View Speech
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